The solution? A pipeline — a stationary, 800-mile-long tube dedicated to delivering oil to a shipping terminal in the year-round port of Valdez. Pipeline-like transports are not new.

This storm shut down schools and blocked roads. But the sheer weight of this snow sunk six boats in the port of Valdez and caved in one city storage building. This town of 4,000 residents about ...

View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...

This storm shut down schools and blocked roads. But the sheer weight of this snow sunk six boats in the port of Valdez and caved in one city storage building. This town of 4,000 residents about 120 ...